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Founder , USA Today Board of Contributors, Georgetown adj prof, CAL Berkeley alum, author “The Guide To The Federal Budget,” dog person

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  1. Retweeted
    1 Feb 2019

    Every cable news program needs to have , and on to discuss this fiscal disaster. Stop with the dissection of Trump tweets!!!

    Trump/GOP tax law is proving a bust,not the promised boon. It hurts many expats because, adopted w/o even one public hearing, it doesn’t integrate with routine foreign retirement savings laws. Speaking Friday at Toronto tax conf on this.
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  2. 23 Jan 2019

    Definitely so am I

    Replying to @imillhiser
    If this means the end of the televised PR-driven SOTU, I’m OK with that.
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    20 Jan 2019

    What confounds me is why you need to recruit a star to hold a GOP seat in Kansas. *checks 2018 gov race results* ohhhhhhh

    NEWS: POMPEO meeting with WARD BAKER today to discuss Kansas Senate seat, per person familiar. Story Tk...
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  4. 18 Jan 2019

    Very perceptive from ⁦⁩

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  5. Retweeted
    17 Jan 2019

    While Washington is doing its best impersonation of high school, the shutdown continues, the country’s business gets ignored and its challenges unmet, and American standing in the world falls further as others find it impossible to respect or count on us.

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  6. Retweeted
    17 Jan 2019

    Nearly 10,000 companies contract with shutdown-affected agencies, putting $200 million a week at risk

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  7. Retweeted
    17 Jan 2019

    This is like late-stage Nixon. First Nixon didn’t know what Liddy & Hunt were doing. Then didn’t know what Coulson & Mitchell were doing. Then didn’t know what Haldeman & Ehrlichman were doing. Problem: Nixon did know what they were doing and they were doing it at his direction.

    Rudy Giuliani, on CNN: "I never said there was no collusion between people in the campaign" and Russians. And on Trump, "He said *he* didn't (collude with Russians.) He didn't say nobody."
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  8. Retweeted
    17 Jan 2019

    “This is not just some linear event. It can get exponentially worse in very unpredictable ways.” It’s not just the shutdown threatening economy. It’s the risk that people will conclude that government in the Trump era is fundamentally broken. By me.

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  9. Retweeted
    16 Jan 2019

    If Trump now reopens Govt, he visibly surrenders to Pelosi. If Trump keeps Govt closed, he bleeds support faster. Workers miss next paycheck, air travel delays, govt services fail, and economy stalls. Trump built the trap and walked into it. Pelosi just locked it behind him.

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    16 Jan 2019

    We somehow live in a world where Republicans with a straight face say that their tax cuts increase revenues and that Democrats' tax increases somehow lose revenue. The opposite is, obviously, the case.

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  11. 16 Jan 2019

    Agreed. Absolutely.

    I, for one, would love it if we returned to the president submitting a written State of the Union report to Congress.
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    16 Jan 2019

    Money managers do fine when searching for stocks to buy. They need to do as well figuring which stocks to sell, writes via

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  13. 16 Jan 2019

    It’s a memo from Ben Civiletti.

    That's how I remember it from when I was a fed too. Can you help us with the statutes?
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  14. 16 Jan 2019

    That’s the point...there are no statutes.

    That's how I remember it from when I was a fed too. Can you help us with the statutes?
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  15. 16 Jan 2019

    Grey sweat pants.

    Rotary phones
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  16. 16 Jan 2019

    The president has the authority to change at any time who is considered “essential.”

    How is this legal
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  17. Retweeted
    15 Jan 2019

    According to this secret White House report, by the end of the week the shutdown could have slowed growth by 30 basis points. This would more than overwhelm the temporary growth boost from the republican tax bill. (between 2 to 26 basis points)

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  18. Retweeted
    14 Jan 2019

    Some legit Galaxy Brain thinking on the government shutdown and its economic impact

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  19. Retweeted
    14 Jan 2019

    Also from Quinnipiac: Did Trump's recent televised address to the nation change your mind about building a wall along the border with Mexico, or not? Yes: 2% (not a typo) No: 89%

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    14 Jan 2019

    Schumer: How long will it take Ldr McConnell to realize…Congress needs to move forward without the president..it’s time for leader McConnell to realize he has the power to break this impasse

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